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La Catrina Quartet to perform at St. Bonaventure's Quick Center

Jan 28, 2014 | ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — La Catrina Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Arts Center in the sixth concert of the 2013-14 Friends of Good Music season.

In residence at New Mexico State University, La Catrina Quartet regularly tours throughout the United States and Mexico. The group has received important awards and recognitions, such as Western Michigan University’s All University Research and Creative Scholar Award and an engagement with the North Carolina Arts Council’s cARTwheels 2009-2010 touring program.

Among the quartet’s highlights was an invitation to perform as featured artists by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano on a recording of music by Brazilian composer Francisco Mignone, which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Classical Recording in 2012. The CD, “Brasileiro,” was produced and recorded by Sono Luminus and is available for purchase at all the major online music stores.

As a result of the quartet’s participation in the highly competitive Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ Young Performers Career Advancement program in New York City, which concluded with a showcase performance of “the next generation’s classical music star performers” in Carnegie Hall, the quartet has maintained a busy touring schedule, performing more than 500 concerts in the last five years. From 2007-2009, La Catrina was in residence with the Western Piedmont Symphony in North Carolina and at the Chamber Music Festival of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where the group collaborated with the Brentano Quartet, the Poulenc Trio and The Miami Quartet.

Last summer, La Catrina Quartet was honored with an invitation to perform as soloists with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de Mexico for the opening gala concert of the Festival del Centro Historico, one of Mexico’s most prestigious concert series. Next season, the quartet is slated to perform in several important venues in Mexico as well as in Europe.

Prior to the concert the Quick Center will serve a Mexican buffet from 5 to 7 p.m. in The Loft on the Quick Center’s third floor. The cost is $20 per person. There will be a cash bar serving Mexican beer and margueritas.

For tickets and information, call the The Quick Center box office at (716) 375-2494.

For this and all other performances, the museum galleries will open one hour before the start of the performance and remain open throughout the intermission.

Regular gallery hours at The Quick Center are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Museum admission is free and open to the public, year round.

Visit the center’s website at www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.

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